段珪 / Duan Gui (late Han)

Overview

段珪 / Duan Gui is a late-Han eunuch whose current wiki profile has an early Huan-era property-and-complaint branch in Hanji 853 and a later 189 CE palace-crisis branch in Hanji 946. The page treats the route as a continuous eunuch-access figure while keeping the early branch source-scoped.

Current Profile

Hanji 853 places Duan Gui beside 侯览 as a small yellow-gate figure with large farmland near Jibei. Their servants and guests rob travelers; 滕延 arrests and executes dozens of them, but Hou Lan and Duan Gui complain to 汉桓帝, and Teng Yan is recalled, sent to the commandant of justice, and dismissed.

Hanji 946 shows Duan Gui much later as an ally of 张让 during the palace crisis around 何进. After He Jin is killed, Duan Gui joins the flight by palace passageways with 何太后, 刘辩 / 弘农王, and Liu Xie / 汉献帝. His clearest individual scene comes when 卢植 shouts at him, causing him to release Empress Dowager He.

Key Characteristics

• Early Huan-era small yellow-gate figure whose servants and guests enjoy violent protection.
• Complaint-channel actor whose appeal to Huan reverses Teng Yan’s local enforcement.
• Later Ten Attendants-side ally in the 189 CE palace crisis.
• Participant in the seizure and flight of the dowager and imperial boys after He Jin’s death.
• Source-bounded example of eunuch access shifting from property protection to palace violence.

Evidence

• Property-and-servant branch: Hanji 853 says Duan Gui and Hou Lan hold large farmland near Jibei and their servants and guests rob travelers.
• Enforcement reversal: Hanji 853 says Duan Gui and Hou Lan complain to Emperor Huan after Teng Yan executes their offenders, leading to Teng Yan’s dismissal.
• Palace counterattack: Hanji 946 says Duan Gui helps Zhang Rang respond to He Jin’s anti-eunuch plan and joins the post-killing flight.
• Dowager-release scene: Hanji 946 says Lu Zhi shouts at Duan Gui and Duan Gui releases Empress Dowager He’s hand.

Qualifications

Hanji 853 uses 段归 and Hanji 946 uses 段规; this page follows the normalized 段珪 route already established for the 189 CE figure. The early Huan-era branch is treated as a source-bounded layer of the same eunuch-access profile, but the page does not reconstruct the intervening offices or prove an unbroken career from 160 to 189.

What Changed

• The profile now includes the 160 CE Hou Lan and Teng Yan enforcement-reversal branch before the later palace-crisis material.
• Duan Gui’s page now distinguishes property-protection complaint power from later palace-coup violence.

Relationships

• 侯览 - paired eunuch figure in the Jibei property and complaint branch.
• 滕延 - local official whose enforcement is reversed after Duan Gui and Hou Lan complain.
• 汉桓帝 - ruler who receives the complaint and dismisses Teng Yan.
• 张让 - later palace-crisis ally.
• 十常侍 - factional context for the 189 CE branch.
• 何进 - target whose death begins the palace cascade.
• 何太后, 刘辩 / 弘农王, and 汉献帝 - figures seized or moved during the flight.
• 卢植 and 闵贡 - pursuit and release actors in the flight branch.
• 宦官庇护下的地方暴行 - concept directly illustrated by the Teng Yan reversal.
• 宫廷政变暴力级联 - concept adjacent to Duan Gui’s later palace-crisis role.